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Google is preparing to let you run Linux apps on Android, just like Chrome OS (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Are what point do they stop pretending and just make it a pure linux platform with a different packaging format for any linux app to run in? They are doing it with CROS (or whatever the new Chrome on Linux OS is being called) and maybe it's time to do it with Android. Running a VM just seems quite wasteful.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Desktop Linux has nearly no app security. So the VM approach is a malware prevention. Android is the most used OS in the world.

[–] BCsven 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

AppArmor no?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Mainly for server applications, not for protecing like your .bashrc, your .ssh or .gnupg folder etc.

[–] BCsven 2 points 4 months ago

You cam teach it expected behaviour of apps...but for .folders I would say that falls under SELinux, which seems to have a learning curve to it

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

But Google would much rather keep all of the data for themselves. If you could actually control what’s happening in your phone, it could interfere with Google’s main business model.